Lucia Ponzini

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Short Story

Light of Other Days

  • by Bob Shaw
  • Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1966
On a driving holiday in Argyll, Mr. and Mrs. Garland hope to find a way out of their hateful marriage, but instead they find a field of slow glass harvesting the light of other days. —Michael Main
Apart from its stupendous novelty value, the commercial success of slow glass was founded on the fact that having a scenedow was the exact emotional equivalent of owning land.
Pen-and-ink drawing of a cottage at the foot of a hill that’s covered in large panes of glass.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Only Yesterday

Near the start of the Great Depression, a man waits for college student Donna Smith—someday to be Donna Albright—at the trolley stop near her rural Virgina home. —Michael Main
Nervously fingering his narrow lapel, he broke the silence, saying, “I’d like to tell you some things . . . Totally outrageous things. You have to promise me just one thing first.”
A painting of a spaceport with rockets, a rocket plane, and a futuristic yellow car with a tail fin, wings, and a bubble cockpit.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel